"He's not a bad boy, and he doesn't deserve it," Zacharias repeated with a small shake of his head. He wasn't sure of everything Theodore had done in the past, but in the state he was currently in, he couldn't see how anything he did could be considered 'bad'. He was messed up. To be unsubtle about it.
"It's a present," he replied, holding it in his lap for a moment before he set it down on the floor between them. And then he peeled at the wrapping paper, which was a shiny blue. He tugged it away rather neatly and then opened the box underneath and presented it to the other.
Inside was a stuffed toy. Specifically, a gray plush thestral. He had gone to a children's store to find it - they didn't carry many toy thestrals, but there had been this one, nestled among all the plush Hippogriffs and dragons and Puffskeins and other things.